Difference between revisions of "Bias Card RevD to RevE changes"
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Revision as of 14:53, 30 August 2016
- Low-noise Bias lines
- Low noise bias lines are meant to be used as TES bias lines. Bias Card Rev. E provides 12 independent bipolar low-noise bias lines (LN_BIAS) in addition to the 32 regular biases. The 12th low-noise bias is what was called det_bias in Rev. D cards. Rev. D cards shared a DAC between two outputs called Heater and det_bias.
- Note that the low-noise bias line in Rev. D was unipolar with 0 to +5V range, while low-noise bias lines in Rev. F are bipolar from -5V to +5V. At powerup, the output voltage is 0V, equivalent to an input pattern of 0x8000.
- 10V supply
- Vah or 10V supply is not used by Rev. F cards anymore. The reference voltage for the DACs is generated from pVa or 6.2V supply instead.
- Vah is used in Rev. D cards to provide the reference voltage for the DACs.
- Software considerations
- To make the 12 bias lines commandable, set $hw_rev["bc"] = "revE" (or greater) in mce.cin . This will add a op_xor entry in mce.cfg file to make a 2's complement interpretation of values entered so that wb bc2 bias 0 is aligned with 0V and wb bc2 bias 32767 with +5V.
- in experiment.cfg, set hardware_fast_sq2 accordingly
- Firmware consideration
- The FPGA pins assigned to control lines for ln_bias DACs are not compatible with Rev. D nor Rev. F cards. Therefore, special RevE firmware is needed to be able to excercise ln_bias DACs (bias command).